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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in philosophy.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

Wife work defined Wife work tasks include: writing references for students; mentoring; assisting students with emotional problems or recruitment; careers advice; taking on someones admin work whilst they gain awards; and committee work, effectively comprising what is known as service work.

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Building an Impactful Brand Voice

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

As universities began to allow prospective learners, particularly adults seeking flexibility, to earn a degree without ever setting foot on campus, they also started to rethink their brand messaging to attract the modern student, all while jockeying for elbow room in the increasingly crowded online market. Approachable or rigorous?

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. Students, instructors, and researchers depend on these resources–losing them can be quite traumatic, and people become understandably angry about these losses.

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How MOOCs helped a centuries-old institution change its ways

Teaching Matters Online Learning

They explain how over the years, they’ve adapted their services in response to the lessons learned from their experiments. Nikki Stuart is a digital programme manager and Lauren Johnston-Smith is an online learning marketing projects manager at the University of Edinburgh.

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Transcending international boundaries online to create a global community

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The programme established a bridge for me to communicate with learners throughout the world and changed my previous point of view on online learning. In 2013, Lughano Kalongolera became the first Malawian to graduate from an online surgical training programme. Lauren has 20 years’ experience in marketing higher education and the arts.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Leveraging University Traditions in Your Annual Giving Strategy

EAB

Miami has seen significant success in their annual giving on this day, seeing a 171% increase in undergraduate alumni giving since 2013. Emphasize the impact alumni can make at your institution by highlighting key support areas such as groundbreaking research, inclusive community spaces, or new academic programs.